Hey folks, here with another cover of a popular 80’s track. This time around it’s a playful bossa nova cover of Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself.” Reminds me of a mix of bossa nova meets The Bird and The Bee meets Billy Idol.
From wiki:
The song is reportedly about masturbation, although it is in truth about what Tony James and Billy Idol witnessed in a Japanese night club during the band’s 1979 Japanese Tour as patrons watched themselves dance in the space enhancing mirrors which covered the walls.
Nouvelle Vague released their cover in 2006.
From wiki:
Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their “Frenchness” and “artiness” (the ’60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of ’60s Bossa nova-style arrangements.